Executions

Question 1

Marie Antoinette executed:

Answer 1

16 October 1793

Question 2

Girondin leaders tried and found guilty:

Answer 2

30 October 1793

Question 3

Bristol, Verginaud and 20 other Girondins guillotined:

Answer 3

31 October 1793

Question 4

Madame Roland executed:

Answer 4

8 November 1793

Question 5

Doyle on why Girondins killed:

Answer 5

“The sans-culottes wanted their enemies silenced.. no compromise seemed possible with men who denounced patriotic Parisians as anarchists and blood drinkers”

Question 6

Destroying Catholicism was viewed…

Answer 6

in the same vein as destroying the moarchy

Question 7

Paris Commune ordered all Churches to be closed …

Answer 7

November 1793

Question 8

By … most churches had been closed

Answer 8

May 1794

Question 9

Between … to …% of priests gave up their priesthood during this period

Answer 9

10 and 35%

Question 10

The Law of Frimaire created :

Answer 10

5 December 1793

Question 11

Law of Frimaire ended anarchy by identifying the National Convention as:

Answer 11

“the sole motive centre of government”

Question 12

Schama on Law of Frimaire:

Answer 12

It was intended to end “the anarchic process by which zealots could take the law into their own hands”

Question 13

Law of Frimaire:

Answer 13

“Every infraction of the law … will be punished”

Question 14

Townson on the Law of Frimaire:

Answer 14

“Marked the complete reversal of the principles of 1789 … and many of the characteristics of the ancien regime reappeared”

Question 15

Hebert guillotined:

Answer 15

24 March 1794

Question 16

Danton in criticising Robespierre:

Answer 16

“Perhaps the terror once served a useful purpose, but it should not hurt innocent people”

Question 17

Danton guillotined:

Answer 17

5 April 1794

Question 18

Doyle:

Answer 18

Danton’s “execution marked the beginning of a new phase … where people would die for their potential as much as for crimes”

Question 19

Law of 22 Prairial:

Answer 19

10 June 1794

Question 20

…. people were guillotined between … and … .

Answer 20

2639 between March 1793 and August 1794

Question 21

Between … and … over …% were executed

Answer 21

June and July 1794, over 50% of 2639 were executed

Question 22

Victory in the Battle of Flereus:

Answer 22

26 June 1794

Question 23

Madelin on Paris:

Answer 23

“Fear was on every side”

Question 24

Robespierre dies:

Answer 24

July 28 1794

Question 25

Number of deaths from the terror range from :

Answer 25

17,000 to 100,000

Question 26

Schama on the Terror:

Answer 26

Violence was the “motor of the revolution”